. Alienist and from typhoid and other prevalent and preventable dis-eases would increase our average length of life over fifteenyears. There are constantly about .5,000,000 persons seriouslyill in the United States of whom 500,000 are than half this illness is preventable. If we count the value of each life lost at only $1700,and reckon the average earning lost by illness at $700 peryear for grown men, we find that the economic gain frommitigation of preventable disease in the United States wouldexceed $1,500,000,000 a year. In addition we would de-crease suffer
. Alienist and from typhoid and other prevalent and preventable dis-eases would increase our average length of life over fifteenyears. There are constantly about .5,000,000 persons seriouslyill in the United States of whom 500,000 are than half this illness is preventable. If we count the value of each life lost at only $1700,and reckon the average earning lost by illness at $700 peryear for grown men, we find that the economic gain frommitigation of preventable disease in the United States wouldexceed $1,500,000,000 a year. In addition we would de-crease suffering and increase happiness and contentmentamong the people. This gain, or the lengthening andstrengthening of life which it measures, can be securedthrough medical investigation and practice, school andfactory hygiene, restriction of labor by women and children,the education of the people in both public and privatehygiene, and through improving the efficiency of our healthservice—municipal, State and National. The National. Publishers Department. 320 government has now several ageneies exercising healthfunctions which only need to be concentrated to become co-ordinated parts of a greater health service worthy of thenation.—From the Report oj the National Conservation Com-mission. Colon and Semicolon.—The Louisville Courier-Journalsays: Doctor John Young Brown, a former Kentuckian,now an eminent surgeon in St. Louis, told the Ohio ValleyMedical Association at Evansville that he believed the largecolon in man, with the exception of its lower portion, was auseless organ. He believed, he added, that many of thetoxaemias were due to defective colon mechanics and pre-dicted that many conditions now considered medical wouldbe transferred to the surgical column and relieved by opera-tions. Doctor Brown cited a series of cases where he had deliber-ately eliminated the useless colon. He also presented apatient whose colon had been out of commission for threeyears. This patient, the
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